Monday 13 June, 5.00-7.30pm, Room 4.10:  LEARNING TO LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES – WHAT ARE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR?
Professor Keri Facer (Manchester Metropolitan University) talks about her new book which questions taken-for-granted assumptions about the future of education. Arguing that we have been working with too narrow a vision of the future, Keri Facer makes a case for recognising the challenges that the next two decades may bring, including: The emergence of new... Read full post

According to Nik Peachey, it's educational technology...
See http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/development/the-worst-thing-about-educational-technology-is-educational-technology

This conference takes place in Portsmouth, UK, from 5th to 8th July 2011. The call can be found at http://ictmt10.org/
 

Here is the privacy document of the other project, eTwinning, that I talked about: http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/misc/privacy_statement.htm#i2450
It's been in making for many months, because many stakeholders were involved (e.g. EAC Agency who owns the data (data controller), EUN who is the data processor, Commission's data privacy expert)
Part 2 is important, it outlines what data is collected (2. What personal information do we collect, for what purpose and through which technical... Read full post

Here are my slides building up why social data that users add on learning resources is important for the discovery of learning resources in a multilingual context. This, of course, has ramifications also for what kind of datasets I would like to see in the future!

Discovering and using learning resources across contexts: eQnet
(Oops, I don't seem to be able to embed content here!)

For example, to pursue this type of work, it would be imporant that the dataset would indicate:... Read full post

Just a few quick remarks on this crucial point of Data privacy from the work that we've done in European Schoolnet. In this post I refer to the Privacy policy of LREforschools portal, to find the policy scroll down and click on "privacy policy". It's well hidden, right ;)
First and foremost, the use of data (e.g. what is gathered, who has access to it) will always need to be explained in the privacy policy. For example, in the LRE we say:

Information such as user IP address, internet... Read full post